Jacques Achard

Jacques Achard (15 October 1797-8 February 1850) was a general of the French Army under the July Monarchy. Achard commanded the 27,000-strong 1st Army at Orleans, France during peacetime, and he was known to be a convinced Bonapartist, supporting Napoleon III when he became the leader of a military dictatorship in France after the French Revolution of 1848. He died in 1850.